The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Revisited – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Revisited – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Conventional wisdom holds that communism fell with the Berlin Wall. Results from the recent primaries in New York City suggest that, as Mark Twain might say, reports of communism’s death were greatly exaggerated. (I follow the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn here in making no distinction between “democratic socialism” and communism.) People vote for socialism for all kinds of reasons: envy of the rich, personal greed, a vulnerability to social cont…